Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy was a sensation in Comanche. Boydstun, however, was disappointed by the steady trickle of viewers who walked through his orchid-carpeted funeral home. Apparently in the hope of bigger headlines and bigger crowds, he announced that 12,000 people had crowded past the open coffin in the first two days, including seven busloads of schoolchildren from Byers, Texas-statements which were angrily denied by 1) watchful Comanche citizens, and 2) Byers school authorities. There was no denying, however, that 5,000 people had come to town to look at Billy, and that many of them brought their children along...
Boydstun ordered loudspeakers rigged outside the funeral home, engaged the Rev. David Soper of the Assembly of God ("If we aren't careful, we could have a cannibalistic attitude in America . . ." said the reverend of Cook's career) and prepared for a big funeral. The coffin, Boydstun assured the public, would be reopened before burial to allow all a good, last look. But that was as far as the undertaker got with his plans...
Reverend Arnold Fenton, of St. Thomas Church in Mamaroneck, NY., spent half an hour with Dick Clasby yesterday, trying to improve Clasby's already fine punting. Fenton, a fine kicker himself, who has coached over 900 kickers, is helping Clasby as an advisor. They worked at "coffin corner" kicking yesterday, with Fenton setting up two flags at the goal line for the Natick star...
...last years, he was a shadow of a man, half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...
Meyercord decals to make a pine coffin look like a marble...